Youth, hitting the clouds! Laughing at danger! Fighting, loving, dodging death! That's "WINGS"
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
friendship
paris, france
love triangle
world war i
gay interest
battlefield
aerial combat
dogfight
black and white
warfare
silent film
us military
1910s
fighter pilots
preserved film